frightened - Story 50365 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Happy Birthday!" the card proclaimed, its cheery font mocking Liam. He stared at it, a knot tightening in his stomach. The bright colors felt garish, the sentiment insincere. It felt like someone was toying with him.

He bolted the door, then the windows, though it was an otherwise quiet afternoon. The sound of his own breathing filled his ears. His gaze kept returning to the card. It was as if a sinister presence had been delivered to his doorstep. He picked up his phone, hesitating. Who could he call?

He sank into a chair, the floorboards cold beneath him. He was trapped in a feeling he couldn’t place.

Emotion: frightened

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -2.74 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.67

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion frightened. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 frightened stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the frightened emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the frightened vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.324
`😰`	0.323
`worse`	0.301
`😖`	0.294
`느껴`	0.294

Suppressed:

`de`	-0.630
`la`	-0.616
`a`	-0.347
`"`	-0.345
`happy`	-0.294